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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. The believability of this is underscored by the fact that the Pilgrims and their guides listed among their possession numerous “fowling pieces” … for hunting wild birds.

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The Eurasian Woodcock

10,000 Birds

” Incidentally, the large number of woodcocks hunted also established the basis for a study analyzing the importance of millipedes in the autumn-winter diet of the species. Anyway, that paper looked at the concentrations of heavy metals in soils, earthworms, and tissues of woodcocks in Quaderna Valley, northern Italy.

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